Improvement in earth-closets



Matted sendet gaa-'1c @entre JAMES ADDIZON D RAKE, 0F NEW ORLEANS,'LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR ,TO HIMSELF AND MARY E. B LARK, OF SAME PLACE.

Letterslatent No. 106,565,1lated August 23, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN' ERTH-CLOSETS.

The Schedule referred -to in these Letters' Patent and making4 part ofthe same.

I, JAMES ADDIzoN BRAKE, of New Orleans, Louisiana, have made a certainImprovement in Earth- Closets, ot' which the 'following is aspecification. 'f

My improvement consists of a device for precipitating in earthfclosetsdry earth or other deodorized equivalent, at propel' times and-in properquantity, in combination with a rocking hopper to contain the dry earth,that is so constructed as to force the said earth upon the device asfast as it is thrown out by said device. f Y.

'lh`e objects attained by my'improvement are the same sought to beaccomplished by all improvements inearth-closets, and need not thereforebe herein specitied.

A reference to the ldrawingwill at once d isclose the nature and mode ofoperation of 1ny invention.

Figure l is a'side'view ot' an earth-closet in which my improvement isincorporated, and

Figure 2, a front view of the same closet.

Portions ot the interior walls are broken away in both views, in orderto bring into view ythe interior arrangement of my improvement.

On the drawing- Y A is the hopper to contain the deodorizing substanceor powder, so constructed as to be ,sustained on an axis, B, and therear portion ofthe compartment C,

whileyet extending below the upper edges of thesame in a'n obliquedirection forward, as showrrby theA dotted line a., sufficiently toprovide a short horizontal section, as shown at lf 11' by dotted lines.

In front ot' the hopper A the scat ot' .the closet is secured at rightangles thereto, and in linc.witil theyupper-edge of the compartment C,as clearly shown at fig. 1.

'.lhe seat is'marked D.

Below the seat D s toppcrs or cleats E are fixed on the sides of thecompartment Cat a suliicicnt distance, say two or three inches, topermit said seat to. go down that far Whenever it is occupied, under theweight of the person Vwho sits upon'it.

lhe depression of the seat under the weight of the person who sits downon'it, and its elevation to its normal posit-ion when herises fromI it,rocks the hop; per A on its axis B, and hencecauses the deodorizingsubstance to vflow into the horizontal and reduced section, which isshown by the dotted lines b b', at fig.1,

to which it is directed by the inclined rear a. by its own gravity, andfrom which it is delivered in prescribed quantity upon each deposit ot'fecal matter .within the closet by the deviceor winged valve. F.

"crank, I, as shown atboth figures.

The crank I is so placed on the shai't H as to hold the valve F invertical position, and, therefore, in such position as to close thedelivery section l) b whenever or at all times except when it ispurposely turned out ofx that position.

Theoperation ot my invention is as follows:

When the person who is about to use thecloset sits down on the seat D itis depressed until'it rests on the cleats E, and consequently throws thehopper A- forward by a rocking motion on the axis B; .this causes thedry earth to lmove lin'ward, if it has' not already done so, and lill upthe delivery section b i). As soon as .the deposit has been made theoccupant ot' the closet seizes the crank I, and, by turning it over ineither direction, causes one ot' the wings Gr to throw out-.of thedelivery section l) l1 a prescribed quantity ot` the deodorizing agent,which, falling on the eXcret-a, accomplishes the desired object.V WhentheV occupant risesvtifomthe-seat the weight ot' the hopper oarrics itback to its normal position, with a sudden and quick motion, which,`being suddenly arrested, causes a downward ow ot' the dry earth, and aretilling ol' the horizontal section b-b, and so on indefinitely.

The wingedY valve F, when constructed as herein described,andactnatcd'by a hand-crank, I, in combination with a hopper, A, when thelatter restson. an axis, B, and is otherwise constructed asspecifed,-t'ur the purpose set forth.

JAMES ADDIZON BRAKE. Witnesses:

H. N. JENKINS. F. R. PLACE?

